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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a police officer was struck on Richmond and Wilson Aves. on Staten Island, there was a large fight on Franklin Ave. and Empire Blvd. in Brooklyn, and a double homicide on Furman Ave. and East 237th St. in the Bronx.
- The US Postal Service is expecting to process one billion individual pieces of mail today, three times the daily average. The busiest day of the year is expected to be Wednesday.
- Interboro Institute, the two-year commercial college, is going out of business due to financial and regulatory problems.
- Oysters used to be one of the most plentiful animals in NY Harbor. Now they're making a recovery in one of the most unlikely of places--the Gowanus Canal.
- The Metropolitan Museum received quite the holiday present when the estate of Diane Arbus presented it with the photographer's entire archives as a gift.
- The airline industry is seeking in court to block a passenger bill of rights that originated in New York due to horrendous service.
- The city's looking to combat the obesity of New Yorkers (we're less obese than the rest of the country) by increasing the number of permits issued to food cart vendors selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
- Collaborative sleuthing tries to dig up why the planned Brooklyn College dorm that used to be under construction seems to be going nowhere.
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Interboro Institute has ads all over the subway. Guess this'll be a revenue loss for the MTA.
Sock squirrels!
The ermines & mouse are sculpted from clay and they're wonderfully rendered.
I love this pic and it's back by popular demand, personal popular demand. Well done Irena Kittenclaw!
At night the ice weasels come......
Oh, ermines and mouse, clay... so technical for a fun pic... geez.
great pic, Gothemist never disappoints
Hi Dave! Thanx so much for posting the shot. Rock on!!